Vince Lombardi Quotes
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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers...Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.